Suggested dress for the evening is Black and White Cocktail. Tickets to 21 Club are $275; tables of 10 are $2,500. Purchase tickets at thodosdancechicago.org or call Thodos Dance Chicago, (312) 266-6255.

Fans of New York's 21 Club will recall that during prohibition, only insiders armed with a secret password could gain entry to the restaurant and its secret underground wine cellar. Guests will enjoy the same private privilege as they enter TDC's modern-day 21 Club, where they will encounter an exciting evening including cocktails, dinner, a silent auction, a wine roulette wheel, plus dancing late into the night to the music of Swing Assembly.

The evening will be capped with a performance by the Thodos Dance Chicago Youth Ensemble, and an exclusive sneak peek of Ann Reinking and Melissa Thodos's newest collaboration, A Light in the Dark: the Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, an intimate dance/theater piece about the extraordinary woman who was deaf and blind yet went on to become a world-famous writer, political activist and inspiration to all. A Light in the Dark- an equally powerful yet more intimate follow-up to their smash hit The White City: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 - will debut to the public on February 16 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, and March 2 and 3 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in downtown Chicago.